Wind fruit
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Wind fruit is a pare-sized green fruit with four fleshy lobes. It has a particular sugar that gets rapidly fermented into alcohol by microbes in the yinrih's gut. Gas is a byproduct of this fermentation process, giving the fruit its name.
One fruit is enough to get a yinrih drunk. The whole fruit is often cut into its four lobes to share among friends. The effect is hit and miss with humans. Even some who have lived at Focus their whole lives eating yinrih food are unaffected.
The fruit's shape, name, and effect on the vulpithecine body have made it a favorite subject of analogy. In commonthroat, the word for wind fruit is also used to refer to politicians. A crooked politician's duplicity may be compared to the fruit's multiple lobes. The fruit's intoxicating effect may bring to mind the vapidness of some public figures, and a statesman given to long-winded public speeches may be likened to the fruit's association with flatulence.